Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Love is a Dog From Hell
Book Review: love, lust, desire, sex, hatred; American love poems
Summary: 5 Stars
I was down and out and burned out. Love was beating me down. Never heard of him. Saw the title. What else did I need? Bukowski mixes pure, raw sexual experiences and images with heartfelt love, adoration, and regret. He is one of the few authors in the world who can change your emotions from laughter, to disgust, to tears in only three poems. Read him. You must.Book Review: LOVE...hearts and flowers need not apply.
Summary: 5 Stars
Take off the rose-colored glasses...return your seats to their upright position...place your head between your knees and prepare for a crash landing. Don't get me wrong: this book is not a diatribe condemning love. We've all read and loved our Byron, but now it's time to step through the looking glass, children. Love may "walk in beauty like the night" but, "Love, Bukowski Style"...asks you to remember that "the night" isn't the best venue for clarity of vision. Bukowski speaks to that other side of love...vitriolic, soul-destroying, perverted, barbaric and insane. All, who have ever loved, will find the words for their feelings...the feelings for their lack of words...in Bukowski's auto-Eros-dissection. Why would I suggest you read this volume of poetry? Why would anyone want to subject themself to such unpleasantries? What kind of sadist am I, that I would ask you to deliberately subject yourself to the pain of love? To know love, is to know the pain of love. Yet for all the pain inherent in love, we seek love again and again. Nothing exercises our gifts of hope and faith more strenuously. Love may be a "dog from hell" to Bukowski, but he is still unable to disguise his want, his need and his hope for more love. Bukowski - alcoholic, misanthrope, barbarian, gutter rat - who writes of love and can still say..."It softens a man."Book Review: Bukowski is a poet from hell
Summary: 5 Stars
Bukowski's poetry is like his books : straight to your guts and to your heart. No concessions, of course, and that lirism so special from this strange man, one of the freest men ever. Love, sex, pain, alcohol in overdose in a book that I read breathless. Yes, this is real modern poetry from a modern man. Buk, I'll have many on you; we all should.Book Review: Bukowski poetry at it lowest -- sheer perfection!
Summary: 5 Stars
The perfect introduction to the poetry of Charles Bukowski. His ability to take a literary snapshot of a moment, oftentimes perverse, and present it so the reader *feels* as if he or she was there is unmatched. If only one book of Bukowski poetry were to adorn my shelves, this would be it